The trick is to pick out the airport environment lights out of the sea of other lights.It wouldn't be the first time an aircraft lined up on a row of streetlights in preparation to land on what the pilot believes to be the runway.When the airport is in a sparsely populated area it's much easier.

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Bad Dog, sir. If you listen to the first part of the exchange, it appears the peter pilot was equally surprised at the ORD clearance. I suspect he was originally going to MDW, and something may have prevented his approach there. Can't really say for sure.

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Bad Dog, sir. If you listen to the first part of the exchange, it appears the peter pilot was equally surprised at the ORD clearance. I suspect he was originally going to MDW, and something may have prevented his approach there. Can't really say for sure.

He was just off of Lewis and it looks severe clear in the area. I think if he couldn't get into MDW he would have mentioned it. They have to make a huge hole in their pattern to protect him from wake turbulence and they have no idea how long he will dawdle on the runway. A big reason for all the other airports in the LAX area is so LAX doesn't have to deal with VFR and slow movers.

I'll give him this, at least it appears he did this late at night when things were relatively slow. Most times, you can't detect the tower controller taking a breath between calls.